Bison Books
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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Waterlily
$18.95 Add to cart“Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint
- Author: Deloria, Ella Cara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803219040
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
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Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
$24.95 Add to cartGalloping Gourmet explores an unfamiliar side of a familiar character in American history, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. In this entertaining narrative Steve Friesen explores the evolving role of ea… [more below]
- Author: Friesen, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236807
- Language: English
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The Shootist
$19.95 Add to cartThis is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman.―Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate
By the author of The H
- Author: Swarthout, Glendon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803238231
- Language: English
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The Women Who Built Omaha: A Bold and Remarkable History
$22.95 Add to cart2023 Nebraska Book Award
During the 1930s the Federal Writers’ Project described Omaha as a “man’s town,” and histories of the city have all but ignored women. However, women have played major roles- Author: Wirth, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228642
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
$27.95 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction
2022 Spur Award Winner
2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year
New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist in Cover Design
Honorable Mention in … [more below]- Author: Brown, Wynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222814
- Language: English
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The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
$29.95 Add to cartThe Dreamcatcher in the Wry, Tiffany Midge’s bitingly hilarious collection of essays written during the COVID-19 pandemic, builds on the critical acclaim of her earlier book Bury My Heart at Chuck E. … [more below]
- Author: Midge, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240146
- Language: English
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Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion’s Soul Through Science and Story
$24.95 Add to cartLeslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet, like most visitors, she had never seen a mountain l… [more below]
- Author: Patten, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238478
- Language: English
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Civil War Short Stories
$14.95 Add to cartIn The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined “war” as “a by-product of the arts of peace.” A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about “courage,” “honor,” and “glory” on the batt… [more below]
- Author: Bierce, Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0803260873
- Language: English
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Dodge County, Incorporated: Big AG and the Undoing of Rural America
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2014 Sonja Trom Eayrs’s parents filed the first of three lawsuits against Dodge County officials and their neighbors, one of the few avenues available to them to challenge installation of a corpora… [more below]
- Author: Trom Eayrs, Sonja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496234995
- Language: English
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Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century
$26.95 Add to cartAs a student and teacher of history, Robin Foster is well aware that humans have persisted through major hardships as long as they have existed. When faced with the anxious dread many felt at the begi… [more below]
- Author: Foster, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623846X
- Language: English
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Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory
$34.95 Add to cartIn late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women–Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty–escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a … [more below]
- Author: Blankenau, Gail Shaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623152X
- Language: English
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The Story Catcher
$14.95 Add to cartYoung Lance is his father’s son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watche… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0803291639
- Language: English
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Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
$14.95 Add to cartDozens of books and dime novels have been written about the reckless, daring adventures of Kit Carson’s youth. Little has been told of the wisdom and greatness of his later years.–Ralph Moody
In 1826
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803283040
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
$31.95 Add to cartNez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232666
- Language: English
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The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
$18.95 Add to cartThe Soul of the Indian is Charles A. Eastman’s exploration and documentation of religion as he experienced it during the late nineteenth century. A Dakota physician and writer who sought to bring unde… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Eastman, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496200594
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations…. [more below]
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803295642
- Language: English
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Old North Trail
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next f… [more below]
- Author: McClintock, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282583
- Language: English
